Description

These six download-and-print Phonics With Feeling readers target multiple spellings of ‘long’ vowel sounds. They are suitable for students in late Year 1 or Year 2, or slightly older catch-up learners. The purchaser may print up to five copies of each book (i.e. 40c per print ex GST). A printable quiz about each book is included, or you can use the online Wordwall quiz.

These books can be used with any sound-to-print phonics teaching sequence at the point at which it is introducing multiple spellings for each vowel sound. The books also match the phonics playing cards available here. A Spelfabet workbook for this level is still in production (sorry).

The Set Nine readers introduce new spellings for vowel sounds introduced in previous sets:

• Revising a…e as in make, a as in making, ai as in rain and ay as in day, and introducing ey as in they, ea as in break, eigh as in weigh and aigh as in straight.
  
• Revising ee as in see, ea as in sea, e as in be, e…e as in these, y as in funny, and introducing ie as in chief, ei as in seize, i…e as in police.
• Revising i…e as in time, i as in find, y as in my, ie as in tie and igh as in night, and introducing eigh as in height and is as in island.
• Revising o…e as in home, o as in no, oa as in boat and ow as in slow, and introducing ou as in soul, oe as in toe, ough as in though and ew as in sew.
• Revising u…e as in flute, u as in brutal, oo as in moon, ue as in blue and ew as in chew, and introducing ui as in suit, ou as in soup, ough as in through, oe as in shoe and wo as in two (though splitting ‘two’ up into two graphemes is tricky, the ‘w’ is there because it was pronounced in the Olden Days, as it still is in twin, twice, twelve, between, twilight etc).
• Revising u…e as in cute, u as in unit, and introducing ew as in few, ewe as in ewe (the sheep), eu as in feud, ue as in cue, ui as in nuisance.

The books are:

Angel’s Bagels (380 words)

• a-e, a, ai, ay, ey, ea, eigh, aigh
• Amy opens her own bagel shop, but it takes her a while to decide on the best name and label for her bagels.

Chief and the Thief (289 words)

• y, e-e, e, ee, ea, ey, ie, i-e, ei
• Chief, the police dog, bravely stays on the back of a motorbike, holding onto a thief.

The Giant, the Tigers, and the Spiders (409 words)

• i-e, i, y, ie, igh, is, eigh
• Will the tigers and the spiders be able to protect the giant and his island when miners with guns arrive to dig for diamonds?

Ghost! (390 words)

• o-e, o, oa, ow, oe, ou, ough, ew
• Joe plays tricks on Lola and Joanna, so they make up a ghost story to give him a fright.

Jo Mathew’s hats (242 words)

• u-e, u, ew
• Jo Mathew keeps losing his hats, and is told to change his attitude.

Eugene’s Ewe (193 words, prints in the same book as Jo Mathew’s Hats)

• u-e, u, ew, eu, e, ui, ewe
• Eugene’s pet ewe likes to eat flowers, but she gets a stern warning.

Bruce and the Juice (181 words)

•  u-e, u, oo, ue, ew, ui
• Suze’s brother, Bruce, makes rude noises when she performs on the flute.

A Shoe in the Soup (152 words, prints in the same book as Bruce and the Juice)

• u-e, u, oo, ue, ew, ui, ou, o, oe, ough, wo
• Luke and Sue get a scolding when they play with a shoe and it lands in the soup.